Now think about that. If the radio is within reach of the bed, you don't need a remote. If you prefer keeping it across the room so you'll have to wake up, get up and turn it off, then you don't want a remote anyway. Besides, none of the remote's buttons allow you to operate any of the the alarm functions, like Snooze. It's about half the size of a credit card, so in the dark, or even in broad daylight if you've taken off your glasses (you're in bed, remember) you can't see the buttons to operate it. And it's so small it gets lost on the headboard or the cat knocks it off behind the bed. And the piece de resistance, the remote requires one of those tiny batteries that costs seven bucks and is only available at a specialty store across town.

I have never used the remote except to test it out and learn how to use it when I first bought it. I wonder how much it added to the cost of the radio.